VMware vSphere Manage Availability [v4]

Course overview

This 1-day hands-on training course equips system administrators with the knowledge, skills, and abilities to achieve competence in building and running a highly available VMware® vSphere™ 4 virtual infrastructure. This course is 50 percent lecture and 50 percent hands-on labs.

Prerequisites

• VMware vSphere 4: Install, Configure, Manage (HH627S) course
• Or VMware vSphere 4: What’s New (HG805S) course,
• Or have prior working experience using VMware ESX™/ESXi and vCenter products

Audience

• System administrators, systems engineers, and solutions architects who need the knowledge, skills, and abilities to ensure the availability of their existing vSphere deployments

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Course objectives

• List the components of business continuity Describe Microsoft Windows 2003 and 2008 cluster configurations
• Configure a VMware High Availability (HA) cluster using nondefault options
• Deploy fault-tolerant virtual machines using VMware Fault Tolerance (FT)
• Deploy VMware vCenter™ Server Heartbeat

Course outline

Course Introduction Business Continuity

• Overview of vSphere features for high availability, fault tolerance, data protection, and disaster recovery

Virtual Machine Clustering

• vSphere general requirements for Microsoft failover clusters
• Overview of the supported Microsoft failover cluster configurations

VMware High Availability Clusters

• VMware HA advanced parameters affecting slot size
• Deploying different admission control policies
• Configuring redundant heartbeat networks and isolation test addresses

VMware Fault Tolerance

• Overview of FT prerequisites and FT operation
• FT best practices
• Configuring, monitoring, and testing a fault-tolerant virtual machine

VMware vCenter Server Heartbeat

• Overview of vCenter Server Heartbeat operation
• Installing and configuring vCenter Server Heartbeat
• Failover and switchover with vCenter Server Heartbeat
• Monitoring vCenter Server Heartbeat